⚠️ Deprecations Deprecate casts from Categorical to integer dtypes (#28525) Deprecate not setting the plan_stage argument in show_graph() (#28391) 🚀 Performance improvements Pushdown len() to concat/union inputs (#28570) ✨ Enhancements Issue FutureWarning on using from_arrow of ArrowStreamExportable (#28442) Add infer_schema_files parameter to scan_csv (#28440) 🐞 Bug fixes Properly propagate enum metadata for iceberg column mapping (#28580) Correctly write parquet field IDs for enums and categoricals (#28581) Fix arrow C interop binview offset (#28623) Fix duplicate hive values in hive pre-partition rewrite (#28621) Double-counted offset for Arrow export of sliced Series(Array) (#28602) Struct/List/Array equality handling in sort and join (#28601) More careful slice pushdown into joins (#28578) Preserve ordering in sliced unions (#28576) Drop input sortedness when casting to a string (#28574) Clear sortedness flags in StringChunked substring kernels (#28573) Bad mask handling when reading optional parquet column (#28547) Any operation on Unknown(Int) and Unknown(Float) should result in Unknown(Float) (#28545) Flip nulls_last after Expr.reverse() (#28572) Fix high blocking thread use in sink_parquet with async local path (#28543) Serialize LazyFrames backed by bytes (#28568) Release GIL in SQLContext.execute() (#28549) Propagate nulls_last in function_expr_sortedness (#28544) Incorrect slicing when a join requires sorting (#28541) 🛠️ Other improvements Fix duckdb delta extension install collision (#28607) Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @BitWeaverDev, @Matt711, @Samoilov2004, @borchero, @dancsi, @dsprenkels, @kdn36, @masumi-ryugo, @nameexhaustion and @ritchie46